By Mulengera Reporters
On Saturday during a burial, a large crowd of mourners descended on Bukomansimbi North MP Christine Nandagire Ndiwalana (of NUP) and thumped her like a chicken thief. The legislator says it was by the grace of God that she survived being assasinated by the crowd she claims was incited and prepped by her political opponents in the constituency.
All this fracas played out at Mpama Cell or Village in Bukomansimbi Town Council during the burial of Marvin Godfrey, a 20-year old Boda rider, who last Tuesday was fatally knocked by Ndiwalana’s constituency ambulance which was passing by as boda-boda riders had a riding competition.
Ndiwalana owns up all this ambulance involvement but expains that Marvin Godfrey was an inexperienced rider who actually rammed into a passing ambulance. In other words, the rider is the one who knocked the ambulance and not the other way round.
When Dr. Ndiwalana turned up for burial on Saturday, hundreds of boda riders present surged forward ostensibly to give her her food. They thoroughly beat her up as security struggled to shield her.
Led by their chairman Sula Matovu, the irate riders said Ndiwalana acted very indifferently and provocatively towards their wounded colleague after the incident. That Ndiwalana never bothered to come to the hospital even when she was in Bukomansimbi on the accident day.
Matovu says when they contacted her for help, she was furious and belligerently accused them of disrespect and advised them to take away their poverty and to leave her alone.
“We are going to make her pay for her sins and that political sanctioning begins today and right here,” Matovu declared at the Saturday burial as a group of security operatives, led by area RDC Pax Kalema, struggled to rescue a bleeding Ndiwalana to safety. “Coming late for this burial also shows the contempt that gu-MP has for us as boda riders in Bukomansimbi.”
Ndiwalana says that she had come with Shs1m to give the deceased’s mother in the hope that this would qualify her to be permitted some audience to explain herself but hundreds of mean-looking boda riders didn’t let her. She says they were merely acting as proxies for her political adversaries who saw this as an opportunity to destroy and overcome her politically for the Bukomansimbi vote as the country counts down to 2026 general elections. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
